Consideration must be given to the fact that COVID-19 data only represents a portion of a year whereas the other causes have all data from 2018 included. Data was adjusted to represent rates per 100,000 population4. To do this the total number of deaths was divided by the number of groups of 100,000 persons present in the population using the 2018 US population estimate of 327274411.
Since COVID-19 has been accumulating over less than a year, what if we calculate the death rate using both population and days accumulating? So if we take the death rate calculated above then multiply by the fraction of a year represented by the data, it might be closer to a far comparison;for other than COVID-19 this would be just 1, for COVID-19 this would be 365 divided by virus days passed.
This gets a little busy, but is still very neat to look at; if we take the first location the virus is known to have landed (confirmed cases) in each country, and follow it country:country we get this:
Day of Virus represents the first day a reported case is docuemnted for each country listed.
When taking into account the overall population of each of the following countries, what is the impact for each?5.
I used these sources to build the graphics in this report:
Report Date: 2020-04-17
Data Source: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/flu_by_age_virus.html↩︎
Data Source: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19↩︎
Data Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/stats_of_the_states.htm↩︎
Data Source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/sp.pop.totl↩︎
Data Source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/sp.pop.totl↩︎
Data Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/↩︎